From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:09:38 -0500 Message-ID: <1109876978.2908.31.camel@mindpipe> References: <4227085C.7060104@drzeus.cx> <29495f1d05030309455a990c5b@mail.gmail.com> <1109875926.2908.26.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Canter Cc: Nish Aravamudan , Pierre Ossman , LKML , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:06 -0500, Mark Canter wrote: > Correct, but if you want to use your headphones you would have to enable > headphones on your mixer, which would negate your speaker output through > your docking station's output. If you want to use the docking station > speakers, you would have to disable the headphones in order to get the > docking station speakers to work; no? If that is the case, then you would > still have to enable/disable each time you wanted to change the direction > of headphones/external speakers. Again, this is not the case under <= > 2.6.10 where it works regardless of enabling/disabling headphones. > > I'd hate to rant and rave here under something that has worked under 2.4.x > and <= 2.6.10. But this seems like a very un-userfriendly solution to > something that has had no issues for quite some time. In that case, what > deemed the change necessary? As far as I see the 8x0 driver added support > for ICH7. I'm sure there's more to it than just that, I just haven't > looked into it the rest of the way. Because the change was needed to make someone else's hardware work. It's a bug, bugs happen. If you want to complain, complain to the hardware manufacturers, who make devices where bit $foo means $bar in one hardware revision, and $baz in the next, and don't give us sufficient documentation to sort out the mess. Lee